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Rewriting the Slater determinant

We can rewrite it as

\Phi(\mathbf{r}_1,\mathbf{r}_2,,\mathbf{r}_3,\mathbf{r}_4, \alpha,\beta,\gamma,\delta)=\det\uparrow(1,2)\det\downarrow(3,4)-\det\uparrow(1,3)\det\downarrow(2,4) -\det\uparrow(1,4)\det\downarrow(3,2)+\det\uparrow(2,3)\det\downarrow(1,4)-\det\uparrow(2,4)\det\downarrow(1,3) +\det\uparrow(3,4)\det\downarrow(1,2),

where we have defined

\det\uparrow(1,2)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left| \begin{array}{cc} \psi_{100\uparrow}(\mathbf{r}_1)& \psi_{100\uparrow}(\mathbf{r}_2)\\ \psi_{200\uparrow}(\mathbf{r}_1)& \psi_{200\uparrow}(\mathbf{r}_2) \end{array} \right|,

and

\det\downarrow(3,4)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\left| \begin{array}{cc} \psi_{100\downarrow}(\mathbf{r}_3)& \psi_{100\downarrow}(\mathbf{r}_4)\\ \psi_{200\downarrow}(\mathbf{r}_3)& \psi_{200\downarrow}(\mathbf{r}_4) \end{array} \right|.

Note that if we again leave out the spin degrees of freedom, the determinant is still zero!